ARABI PASHA AND THE FALSE PROPHET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 22 February 1884, Page 2

ARABI PASHA AND THE FALSE PROPHET.

Tho Constantinople correspondent of iko Morning Post has had an opportunity of talking with a gentleman who recently arrived from Ceylon, and during the last few : 'montlis had many and continuous opportunities of seeing and conferring with Arabi Pasha. This gentleman said:—" Tho victory ot tho Mahdi would cause' no surprise whatever to Arabi Pasha, who over and over again repeated to me that Lis influence was very great, and that England ought te be prepared to seo hiurjmarch some day or other on Cairo." Arabi Pacha, said that nothing had struck him so much as the complete ignorance of Europeans as to the power of Mohamedanism. What Europeans were pleased to term fanaticism was a spirit of self-sacrifico and devotion combined with • courage and organization, which must, make Europe tremble. It was that sentiment, and not his personal ambition, which had.made him in the space of a few weeks master of the situation in Egypt. Hisnamo had become popular all over the Mahommedan world, and as a proof of this Arabi Pasha showed piles of volumes which during his exile in Ceylon had been filled by the most influential personages in India, who still continue going to Ceylon, as on a pilgrimage, to confer with the promoter of the Egyptian rebellion and write their names and words expressing hopo in a speedy triumph in books which are pu|yj| posely kept in the house occupied b>, Arabi. Ever since his arrival in Ceylon', T Arabi Pacha, expressed the opinion that the Mahdi would triumph, as he knew better than Europeans appear to do the spirit of the populations, whose dread of being overpowered by Christian nations is indescribable.